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   Radical Anthropology (radicalanthro@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 23:59:07 JST Radical Anthropology

   More desecration of the #Moon!

   The #Navajo Nation voices objection to obscenely rich private individuals placing #humanremains on the Moon:

   '...the President of the Navajo Nation, Buu Nygren, has filed a formal objection with NASA and the U.S. Department of Transportation over what he calls an act of desecration. "It is crucial to emphasize that the moon holds a sacred position in many Indigenous cultures, including ours," Nygren wrote in a letter dated Dec. 21. "The act of depositing human remains and other materials, which could be perceived as discards in any other location, on the moon is tantamount to desecration of this sacred space." '

   #Indigenous
   https://www.space.com/nasa-responds-navajo-nation-objection-human-remains-moon?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=space.com

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     Juan Per¢ent🍉🏞️🌊 (dacig@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 23:59:27 JST Juan Per¢ent🍉🏞️🌊

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     @RadicalAnthro ONLY national space agencies should be allowed to go to space. How f*ckd up is it that moneyed interests essentially do whatever they want : “ it’s a commercial mission “ and “ we don’t have the framework “. musk&satellites can mess up observations with impunity. Wait till they can extract from asteroids, polluting with no regulations.What could do wrong? Also billionaires and Co will own the only way out to space, holding us hostage. Ban private interests in space now.

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     Scott Matter (scottmatter@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 23:59:29 JST Scott Matter

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     @RadicalAnthro

     Sending your remains to space is the ultimate manifestation of culture:nature dualism. Imagine wanting to be permanently separated from the rest of the living planet.